Marpa Lotsāwa Series

• The Nail of Taking Death as a Friend | Advice

This brief instruction on using death as an opportunity to recognize luminosity and attain the dharmakāya is part of a collection of instructions known as the five nails that dispel hindrances (gegs sel gzer lnga), a teaching that derives from Nāropa.

• A Combined Guru Yoga for Marpa, Mila, and Gampopa by Situ Pema Nyinjé Wangpo | Guru Yoga

A simple practice of guru yoga focussing on three central figures of the Kagyü tradition: Marpa Lotsāwa, Milarepa and Gampopa.

• A Drop of Sunshine: A Guru Yoga for Lord Marpa by Jokyab Pema Trinlé Nyingpo | Guru Yoga

This guru yoga for Lord Marpa Chökyi Lodrö (c.1012–1097), together with his four main disciples (Tsurtön Wanggi Dorje, Ngok Chöku Dorje, Metön Tsönpo and Milarepa), is part of a series of three guru yoga practices focussing on Marpa, Milarepa and Gampopa.

• Guru Yoga of Lord Marpa Lotsāwa by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö | Guru Yoga

Jamyang Khyentse composed this guru yoga practice focusing on Marpa Lotsāwa during a visit to the great translator's former residence at Sekhar in Lhodrak.

• Vajra Net: The Ancillary Preliminary and Concluding Practices for the Three Drops, the Guru Yogas for Venerable Marpa, Mila, and Gampopa by Jokyab Pema Trinlé Nyingpo | Guru Yoga

Additional liturgies to accompany the same author's three guru yoga practices dedicated to Marpa Lotsāwa, Milarepa and Gampopa—A Drop of Sunshine, A Drop of Moonlight, and A Drop of Jewels.

• Prayer to Lord Marpa, Consort and Heirs by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö | Prayers

This prayer invokes the great translator Marpa Chökyi Lodrö, together with his wife Dakmema, his physical heir Darma Dodé and his foremost spiritual heir Milarepa. Jamyang Khyentse composed the text while on a visit to the site of Marpa's estate in Lhodrak, most likely in 1956.

• Song of Devotion: A Prayer to Lord Marpa Lotsāwa by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö | Prayers

This prayer was composed in 1940, following a visionary encounter with the great translator and forefather of the Kagyü tradition and the surge of devotion that this vision inspired.

• The Melody of Complete Accomplishment: A Prayer to Those Praised as Ornaments of the Practice Lineage by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo | Prayers

Jamyang Khyentse says that he wrote this four-verse prayer to the founders of the practice lineage, i.e., Marpa Lotsāwa, Milarepa and Gampopa, in the first month of the Wood Ox year (1865) following a dream.

• A Spiritual Song on the Eight Supreme Difficulties by Nāropa | Songs and Poems

A song about eight supreme difficulties on the spiritual path, said to have been inscribed on the handle of Nāropa's parasol, followed by two verses that Nāropa sang during a gaṇacakra feast.